The Glenn Beck Program - November 03, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Salena Zito & Jim Lentz ｜ 11⧸3⧸21


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Glenn Beck and Selina Zito discuss the results of the mid-term elections and why the left failed in their efforts to elect a Democratic candidate. They also discuss why the media failed to recognize the overwhelming majority of voters who voted for Donald Trump.

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00:00:00.000 Who would say a gloat fest? I wouldn't say a gloat fest. Today's podcast, definitely not a gloat fest.
00:00:09.800 That would be wrong.
00:00:11.040 And here it is.
00:00:20.020 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:00:24.100 From selenazito.com, the one and only Selina Zito.
00:00:32.740 Welcome to the program, Selina. How are you?
00:00:36.300 Good morning, Senator.
00:00:38.460 You, uh, looks like you, uh, called it again.
00:00:43.420 Well, I think the thing is, is if you're trying to understand an election and you're trying to understand a sort of sentiment and how, uh,
00:00:53.620 and how granular, um, voting can be impersonal for, for, for people is to literally go to them and listen to them.
00:01:04.340 Listen to what they're talking about.
00:01:06.200 They may not always tell you who they're voting for, but they will tell you what issues are important to them.
00:01:13.200 And if you understand human behavior, you can start to understand that when something is changing.
00:01:21.200 So it was a very good night, uh, last night for anyone other than progressive socialists, um, even in, even in San Francisco and Seattle, uh, the socialists did poorly.
00:01:36.620 Uh, and then there were, then there were things like the, the truck driver who had just had enough in New Jersey spent less than $200 on his campaign.
00:01:51.180 And it looks like he just beat the state Senate president, a Democrat.
00:01:56.000 I mean, that's fantastic.
00:01:59.340 What a great story.
00:02:00.800 Yeah, his name is Edward Durr.
00:02:04.560 Yeah, absolutely.
00:02:06.180 Look, if you strike a chord with voters, if you understand what their concerns are, if you are as deeply rooted to the community as they are, you're going to capture their, uh, um, their imagination.
00:02:19.120 In people that are successful in governing are people that are aspirational people who are able to make, um, people believe they are part of something bigger than themselves.
00:02:31.680 And that, if you listen to Glenn Youngkin, if you listen to Jason Meyers, and if you listen to the House of Delegate candidates that were conservative, they all had that message in various different ways.
00:02:46.240 They understood the people and what the people wanted and what the people were longing for.
00:02:52.780 And, and that is, that is what I wrote about in, in my book, the great revolt.
00:02:59.520 I, I, I looked at these sort of different, um, coalition or, or, or different archetypes of voters who really didn't have a lot in common, um, except their rootedness to community and their sort of, um, unhappiness with our cultural curators, um, who run our businesses, our sports entities, our institutions, academia, and Hollywood.
00:03:25.980 And, and, and that, that, that sense of not being respected by those institutions is what drew them together.
00:03:34.940 That aspiration was incredibly important in this election.
00:03:39.640 And, and I think that the Democrats really failed because they don't know how to run unless Trump is on the ticket.
00:03:48.760 It was never about Donald Trump, uh, voters, whether you loved him or liked him or hated him.
00:03:55.980 He was, they have moved on voters don't act in the way, um, of looking through the rear view mirror.
00:04:04.880 They're always forward looking, especially in local elections, because the roads, the bridges, the education, taxation, inflation, uh, and economic development are constantly on their minds.
00:04:18.380 And that's sort of what people miss.
00:04:21.600 And I, I want to also point out to your listeners, one of the others, two of the other sort of interesting races for Democrats was the, uh, race for mayor of Buffalo.
00:04:32.120 Were you familiar with that?
00:04:33.660 Yes.
00:04:34.240 Yes.
00:04:34.600 And the, and the, and the referendum on policing in, in Minneapolis, all these strident or woke sort of, um, platforms and, and positions failed miserably because people want police to protect them.
00:04:52.500 They don't want a socialist to, uh, to, uh, to, uh, run their city because mayors are supposed to be good managers.
00:05:01.240 They're not supposed to be ideologues.
00:05:04.040 And, and, and, and so, you know, and, and Democrats and the media really failed to grasp, um, what voters were so displeased with, and, and they focused too much on, on every time someone said something they didn't like, that person was a racist.
00:05:26.160 I mean, people just get tired of that.
00:05:28.600 So the, is this a rejection?
00:05:34.620 I mean, I, I'm, I'm, I'm trying to put together all of the, the pieces, and I think there's lots of reasons and you've named most of them.
00:05:45.340 Um, but there is a, there is this feeling that the left is elitist.
00:05:52.660 They have their own language.
00:05:54.040 And most of the times they're talking, you know, it's latinx, it's latinx.
00:05:59.000 Nobody says latinx, except, I mean. 1.00
00:06:01.920 Oh, I don't know how you say that.
00:06:03.200 I didn't even know how you said it.
00:06:04.820 I just looked at it and I was like, I don't know what that word is.
00:06:07.420 Yeah, it's latinx, uh, and, and which I think is so New Jersey. 0.99
00:06:12.060 It doesn't, it sound like Tony Soprano.
00:06:13.680 Hey, I got a latinx over here, you know? 0.96
00:06:15.980 Um, but, uh, you know, they have their own language and I think it is off putting. 0.98
00:06:24.040 To a lot of people, they, they just feel this elitism coming at them.
00:06:31.120 Is it, is it this plus the agenda that we've seen in Washington, you know, plus the economy?
00:06:41.000 What is the, what does it say?
00:06:43.040 Let's start here.
00:06:43.720 What does it say about Joe Biden?
00:06:46.080 Anything?
00:06:46.680 Here, yes, here's the, if you want one word to describe this election cycle, I would use
00:06:53.240 the word overreach and, and it is an overreach on policy.
00:06:58.140 It's an overreach on elitism.
00:07:00.680 It's an overreach in believing that you were sent to Washington, um, and with a mandate and
00:07:07.020 you certainly weren't because you barely won.
00:07:09.340 You don't have a majority in the Senate and you barely have a majority in the house.
00:07:14.080 Everything is about overreach.
00:07:15.980 Same.
00:07:16.520 And I would add on overreach on COVID overreach on mandates, overreach on, on everything.
00:07:25.340 Yeah.
00:07:25.920 It's overreach.
00:07:27.120 That is the best word.
00:07:28.380 And voters always want to either put the brakes on that or correct it.
00:07:34.660 If they're putting the brakes on it, then you will only see it in a handful of elections
00:07:39.660 because Democrats will then get the message.
00:07:42.680 But if they want to correct it, that means you have new people in the conservative coalition.
00:07:48.660 I would argue that is the direction that this is going because of the influx of blue collar, 0.93
00:07:56.420 uh, voters into the conservative movement.
00:07:59.760 Yes.
00:08:00.380 Um, that aren't just white, they're black, they're Hispanic, they're Asian.
00:08:04.860 I mean, they, they lost a lot of their black and Hispanic vote in Virginia.
00:08:09.420 I mean, that should be very concerning to the Democrats.
00:08:12.600 But, you know, I have been punishing myself all morning and listening and watching on social
00:08:20.640 media, but also on MSNBC and CNN, watching the reaction and their, their belief as to
00:08:28.060 what went wrong.
00:08:29.220 And I'm just, I shouldn't be stunned, but I'm stunned.
00:08:33.440 Oh, I think they think, yeah, they think, well, if only we would have passed it $3 trillion.
00:08:38.900 I'm like, no, no voter wanted that.
00:08:42.200 Voters wanted a regular sort of in good infrastructure bill that, that, that keeps the roads, roads
00:08:47.760 and bridges, um, and creates more broadband.
00:08:50.200 That's what voters want.
00:08:51.180 And also to keep their water clean.
00:08:52.840 They do not want social engineering and, and, and, and environmental justice and criminal
00:08:59.500 justice and free everything.
00:09:01.580 Voters never voted for that.
00:09:04.220 Okay.
00:09:04.320 So you're a, you're, you're a student of, of history enough to be able to, I think, answer
00:09:09.780 this, uh, with some backing, uh, in, in 1919.
00:09:14.720 In 1919, this is the mood, what we're feeling right now, I think is the mood that was happening
00:09:21.180 in 1919.
00:09:22.460 Wilson went crazy and overreach like crazy.
00:09:27.120 But what he did is when people started rejecting him, he said, I got to go out on the road.
00:09:33.080 I've got to, they're just too stupid to get it.
00:09:35.180 I haven't made enough speeches for them to get it.
00:09:38.440 I think that's what they're going to do, uh, this time around, which led to 10 years of
00:09:45.340 the Republicans and the progressives being banished until they cloaked themselves again,
00:09:52.020 uh, and, and shuffled things up.
00:09:55.920 Are, are they going to go stronger?
00:09:58.480 Are they going to cloak themselves?
00:10:00.660 What do you think's coming?
00:10:02.020 They're too arrogant to cloak themselves.
00:10:05.120 Yeah.
00:10:05.420 They do not believe that they are at fault for this happening.
00:10:08.920 They do believe the voters are stupid.
00:10:11.140 Uh, the same voters that they praised in 2020 have now become the, the, the, the voters of
00:10:17.320 stupid. 0.90
00:10:17.880 And that's sort of, uh, the big, um, hurdle that they are, they have shown no, um, willingness
00:10:26.520 to try to tackle.
00:10:28.500 So they're just going to double down.
00:10:30.300 They're going to go out and scold voters about not knowing, not understanding, not, uh, um,
00:10:38.160 believing that they know better and they're going to fix their lives.
00:10:42.160 People don't want their lives fixed.
00:10:44.200 They want to be able to achieve whatever they want to achieve on their own.
00:10:49.160 They want that sense of earning the next step, earning the next, um, um, milestone that they
00:10:57.480 are able to achieve.
00:10:58.960 And even they also want to learn how to fail.
00:11:02.360 You know, that's an innate thing in, in, in the American DNA that the Democrats have been
00:11:07.980 trying to squash for the past 12 years.
00:11:10.880 So here's, what's frightening about all of this.
00:11:13.080 They become more and more arrogant and they are so self isolated that they convince each
00:11:19.780 other that they are right.
00:11:21.520 And that everybody else is stupid.
00:11:23.780 And this is a group of people where you've got the president saying, my patience is wearing
00:11:30.160 thin.
00:11:30.660 This is a group of people that will begin to really punish, not just scold, but to find
00:11:37.920 ways to really punish people.
00:11:41.920 Yeah.
00:11:42.660 Well, in, in that effort, they are going to lose constituencies that they never should lose,
00:11:48.520 you know, on paper, uh, people are not, you know, I, I called this cycle way back in
00:11:56.580 January, two days after, uh, um, uh, Biden was sworn in and just started eliminating people's
00:12:04.740 jobs on the pipeline.
00:12:05.940 I said, there is going to be a great awakening.
00:12:09.140 Here's what people missed in 2020.
00:12:11.540 While everyone focused on the Democrats wins, slim as they were, they missed the red wave that
00:12:17.080 had already started down ballot.
00:12:19.600 People just in Pennsylvania alone rejected wokeness in, in, in depth and Republicans won
00:12:26.500 in state Senate seats in places that have been reliably, reliably Democrat for decades.
00:12:32.580 And no one paid attention to those results, but I understood that this sort of great
00:12:38.920 awakening was already in flux.
00:12:42.560 It was, it, it started to sort of poke up during the, um, during the first few days after
00:12:50.400 the inauguration.
00:12:51.160 But I will tell you the most pivotal thing that happened, um, for Democrats.
00:12:55.560 And, and I don't think people understand this is how is Afghanistan.
00:13:00.080 And we talked about it yesterday that, that changed everything, that negligence, and that
00:13:08.500 is the key word that negligence is, is what made people stop and say, wait, what, this is
00:13:15.240 not what I bought into.
00:13:16.780 I did want us to be out of Afghanistan. 1.00
00:13:19.400 However, I did not want it at the, at the, at the, at the cost of people's lives.
00:13:24.120 I did not want it as a cost of, of our reputation and, and, and, uh, and, and people saw through
00:13:32.060 the lies and are just continuing to see through the lies under this issue.
00:13:36.020 All right.
00:13:36.280 I've, I've only got 30 seconds.
00:13:37.920 Is the, are these two bills waiting in Congress?
00:13:42.180 Are they going to be jammed through or do you see the, the sane Democrats say, I am
00:13:48.860 no way, no way am I getting on board with that?
00:13:52.000 See, I have always thought that this second bill wasn't going to pass.
00:13:56.180 Um, and I, I still think that it's not going to, I think the infrastructure, the bipartisan
00:14:01.660 infrastructure bill does pass.
00:14:03.400 And I think that's the end of that.
00:14:07.660 That is, that's huge.
00:14:09.660 That is huge.
00:14:10.620 Uh, Selena, thank you so much for talking to us.
00:14:12.840 You can follow her writing.
00:14:14.280 She is really good.
00:14:15.440 She's great with historic perspective as well.
00:14:18.040 If you're not familiar with her, selenazito.com, selenazito.com.
00:14:23.180 Thanks.
00:14:25.820 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:28.600 Before we go and introduce you to, uh, Jim Lentz, I want to get a quick update, uh, from
00:14:38.260 Stu on, and again, Hey, they fought a good battle.
00:14:43.660 Let's not, Hey, we're all in this together, guys.
00:14:45.940 We're in this together.
00:14:46.620 So, okay.
00:14:47.520 Okay.
00:14:47.880 All right.
00:14:48.400 So here's some of the results from last night.
00:14:50.560 So Glenn Youngkin is the big news.
00:14:52.240 He wins in Virginia in what would have been just a month ago, a shocking upset.
00:14:57.220 It's important to say, because we got to that point in the last week before the election
00:15:00.900 where we thought he might win, that this is a devastating defeat for Terry McAuliffe.
00:15:07.380 And it couldn't happen to a better guy.
00:15:08.840 It really couldn't.
00:15:09.980 And I will tell you, I have lots to say on this.
00:15:12.960 I think just the Terry McAuliffe loss, uh, tells us many things that we need to know.
00:15:18.540 I'll cover that coming up next hour.
00:15:20.040 Basically, progressives lost almost everywhere, including in Buffalo, where they, a socialist
00:15:25.320 Democrat lost to, to a write-in candidate who was just a normal, crazy Democrat.
00:15:31.200 Uh, the only real victory for real hardcore progressivism around the country was in Boston,
00:15:37.120 the mayor of Boston, who's a Elizabeth Warren clone.
00:15:39.540 Uh, she wins there. 1.00
00:15:41.040 Uh, but they, they were falling apart conservative.
00:15:43.920 I can't say conservative, um, people who are more normal, uh, and more conservative.
00:15:51.320 If you can use that word in San Francisco, we're winning, uh, last night.
00:15:56.160 I mean, it's, it's the Seattle, the Seattle, the school board in San Francisco, uh, flipped
00:16:02.060 away from these people who were saying, we're going to rename George Washington high school.
00:16:06.460 Yep.
00:16:06.700 Uh, it's big, big, big, big, a couple more big school board victories in Texas as well.
00:16:12.420 Um, one other, uh, interesting, uh, situation was in New York, not really covered too much,
00:16:17.700 but there's three ballot initiatives, all of them sort of trying to open up elections like,
00:16:23.460 you know, same day registration and things like that.
00:16:26.060 All of them failed and failed badly in New York, which is remarkable.
00:16:31.220 And then the other big race that everyone's watching right now is New Jersey.
00:16:34.860 Uh, it's very, very close as we speak.
00:16:38.080 Um, the governor race there, Biden won New Jersey by 16 points.
00:16:42.340 Currently it's 49.66% to 49.60%.
00:16:46.800 Murphy, the Democrat is leading at this point.
00:16:49.700 Uh, you know, as someone who goes through all this stuff all the time, the, the votes that
00:16:53.680 are outstanding are largely in blue, blue counties.
00:16:56.340 And I would expect, uh, Murphy to hold onto this though.
00:16:59.300 It's going to be very, very close, which is not an earthquake.
00:17:02.520 Even that the fact that it was close is almost more impressive than what happened in Virginia.
00:17:07.100 So the economy, schools, the culture, um, what's happening in Washington, DC, the, the,
00:17:14.280 the wild unpopularity for, uh, Joe Biden all played a role.
00:17:19.500 But one of the big things that everyone was talking about across the country as they were
00:17:24.320 coming out of the, uh, polls was the economy and the supply chain is really hard to understand.
00:17:32.720 I was having a dinner with a friend, Jim Lentz.
00:17:35.660 He is, um, he, he's been the head of, you were the head of Toyota for how long?
00:17:42.120 Uh, sales side about six years and about seven years CEO for North America.
00:17:46.400 Okay.
00:17:46.680 So he was the CEO for Toyota, uh, motor corporation of North America and the chief operating officer
00:17:53.180 of the parent company in Japan.
00:17:55.800 Um, he is, he, he was, he was there for all of the big things, including the move from
00:18:02.480 California to Texas, Plano, Texas.
00:18:04.860 Uh, and also you were there for the big earthquake, um, in Japan, which I think would play a little
00:18:12.920 bit of a role that you could learn from now on supply chain issues.
00:18:16.780 Oh, very much so.
00:18:17.620 Very much so.
00:18:18.420 Okay.
00:18:18.660 So can you explain the supply chain to the audience?
00:18:22.240 Like you did to me, uh, when I asked you, I said, so what is happening with the supply chain?
00:18:28.140 Sure.
00:18:28.320 So the biggest thing to understand is supply chain is a system and there are a lot of different
00:18:33.820 components to it.
00:18:34.700 And it really starts with forecasting and ordering what you think.
00:18:39.080 So as a manufacturer, I have to forecast what my future needs of automobiles will be.
00:18:44.580 I place that manufacturing order and let's say something that's being produced overseas.
00:18:49.760 It gets produced, it gets shipped, it gets processed at the port.
00:18:54.600 It then gets transported, whether it gets trucked to the ultimate, uh, place of sale or a warehouse,
00:19:01.120 or it gets moved into a rail yard and then it gets railed, uh, and eventually it gets sold.
00:19:06.900 So the challenge is when the supply chain breaks down, uh, all of that has to operate in sync.
00:19:14.140 If you concentrate as we are today on just the port operations, you're just going to move
00:19:20.900 that supply chain problem further down the road.
00:19:24.160 Because let's just, and I'm sure it doesn't work this way, but let's just say you have
00:19:29.440 shipment of a whole bunch of steering wheels coming in.
00:19:32.340 Well, what are you going to do with all the steering wheels?
00:19:34.940 Cause you're missing the chips because the chips aren't in, you need all of them to come
00:19:39.160 in in an ordered way.
00:19:40.320 Right.
00:19:40.840 Right.
00:19:41.160 And can you explain how sophisticated the supply chain is for fact, for factories like Toyota?
00:19:47.560 Yeah.
00:19:48.260 Well, you know, so literally the, the Japanese kind of invented just in time and just in time 0.96
00:19:54.880 means when I build a vehicle in my plant, literally the part that goes on that truck may only arrive
00:20:01.660 hours before production.
00:20:03.500 In fact, our, our plant here in Texas that builds the tundra, uh, we actually have suppliers
00:20:08.540 on site, the seat supplier.
00:20:10.500 So they will build their seats in the same sequence that I build my vehicle.
00:20:15.980 So that seat literally arrives maybe 20 minutes before it needs to, to be able to go down that
00:20:23.160 line.
00:20:23.520 And I think the biggest thing as a result of all this lean manufacturing was created to
00:20:28.540 take waste out of the system.
00:20:30.060 So you didn't have to warehouse 30 and 60 days worth of parts.
00:20:34.420 Cause when you were, when you were at Ford, this is many years ago, almost 40 years ago,
00:20:39.000 when you were at Ford, you, you told me that there were times when you ran out of the right
00:20:45.800 color seats, but that was just it.
00:20:47.980 That's right.
00:20:48.400 You put in whatever you had at the end of the year.
00:20:50.880 So, so, you know, the world's gotten away from that.
00:20:54.160 But the big question that, that COVID in this supply chain crisis has created is can lean
00:21:01.020 manufacturing as we know it today, just in time, literally hours before it's needed.
00:21:06.580 Is that the best way to go?
00:21:08.600 Are we going to need to go backwards a little bit, create more warehousing so we don't have
00:21:14.340 these big glitches?
00:21:15.760 It's going to be interesting to see how this gets fixed because there's, there's an old
00:21:20.460 adage in the car business.
00:21:21.820 And that is when things were going wrong, you'd say the bull is in the ditch.
00:21:26.680 And the big question is not how the bull got there, not whose fault it was, not how you're
00:21:34.180 going to keep them out of the ditch in the future.
00:21:35.900 The question is, how do you get them out of the ditch today?
00:21:39.200 So today we need to be concentrating our efforts on the supply chain in these ports and how can
00:21:46.300 we get these ports cleared as quickly as possible?
00:21:50.100 So I've talked to the head of the truckers, independent truckers.
00:21:53.660 They say there's not a shortage of trucks.
00:21:56.840 There's a shortage of place to put stuff.
00:22:00.080 And they say the trucks, the reason why they have problems with truckers is sometimes these
00:22:04.560 truckers will wait eight hours at a port and they're not getting paid for that.
00:22:09.920 They're not getting paid to wait.
00:22:12.000 So what is the problem?
00:22:14.120 How, if you were president, how would you be fixing this?
00:22:17.220 I would go to somewhere like Wharton and get a systems expert on logistics.
00:22:23.660 To go down to the port and observe exactly what's happening.
00:22:28.200 Where are the bottlenecks?
00:22:30.180 Is the bottleneck trucks coming into the port?
00:22:33.020 Is the bottleneck trucks going out of the port?
00:22:35.680 Is the bottleneck how many cranes we have to move it?
00:22:40.180 I mean, there are so many issues.
00:22:42.120 And if you look at Long Beach as an example, they've been processing roughly 18,000 containers
00:22:48.440 a day.
00:22:49.480 Jeez.
00:22:50.180 There are 29,000 containers a day arriving.
00:22:53.900 Oh my gosh.
00:22:55.000 And, you know, as I started to research this for your show today, you can go back to March
00:23:00.780 and there was a huge backlog in March.
00:23:02.920 So this didn't just take place last month.
00:23:06.300 This has been going on for some time.
00:23:08.900 And nobody did anything.
00:23:10.040 No, and there are 540,000 containers sitting on ships waiting to be processed.
00:23:17.000 Oh my gosh.
00:23:18.080 And only 18,000 can be.
00:23:20.080 Being processed.
00:23:21.240 So if you look at those numbers, you've got to increase your throughput by 60% just to keep
00:23:29.320 up with what's coming, not even to cut into the backlog of what you have there.
00:23:33.940 So the only way to tackle this is to look at the entire system.
00:23:39.020 How can we improve the efficiency every step along the way?
00:23:42.920 Because if, for example, I find a way to work 24-7 at every terminal and I start putting
00:23:50.220 out all these containers, well, your next problem is going to be at the railhead.
00:23:54.060 You're not going to have enough trains to move the merchandise.
00:23:57.180 And then if you fix that problem, then where are you going to put all this stuff?
00:24:01.020 You're not going to have the warehouse space.
00:24:02.560 If you go into Walmart today and there's something that's not in stock and you say, well, do you
00:24:07.200 have it in the back room?
00:24:08.380 There isn't a back room.
00:24:10.340 So, so this.
00:24:11.500 That's why like our supermarkets are, are restocked.
00:24:16.040 Like, what is it?
00:24:16.780 Like something created like 18 times a day because it's just in time, right?
00:24:22.000 They, they predict when they're going to be out of these products.
00:24:25.980 Yeah.
00:24:26.220 I mean, it happens at our plants.
00:24:27.280 I mean, literally at one end of the plant, we'll have parts arrive and literally within
00:24:33.640 hours, it is taken from there and it's put on the assembly line.
00:24:38.320 Rarely do parts sit for a very long period of time.
00:24:42.720 Well, that seems like an impossible problem to fix because you have to fix it from both 0.83
00:24:48.220 ends.
00:24:48.780 Yeah.
00:24:48.940 And a lot of the stuff in these 540,000 containers are not going to be used right away.
00:24:55.960 It, right, right, right.
00:24:57.160 Which is going to cause a problem if they are parts used to complete whatever it might be
00:25:03.220 at a television, an automobile, a piece of furniture, it creates that problem as well.
00:25:08.700 And, and understand too, in China today, their main port, they have problems with electricity.
00:25:15.680 They have a problem with manpower and they're likely running short on cargo containers.
00:25:21.280 Because nothing is coming back to them.
00:25:23.240 Right, right.
00:25:23.840 So at some point in time, you're going to have this glut sitting over there ready to come
00:25:29.300 back.
00:25:29.600 And this armada is going to keep on coming until this system gets fixed.
00:25:35.280 Now, the big challenge is the port infrastructure needs to be improved.
00:25:41.600 In the case of Long Beach, I don't think there's much more land to deal with.
00:25:45.940 So until you can improve the efficiency, and that's, that takes someone to sit down and
00:25:51.160 actually observe what happens.
00:25:52.700 At Toyota, as an example, we have a department that works in our plants just on efficiency.
00:25:58.880 And they'll sit and they'll observe what's going on on an assembly line to figure out where
00:26:04.460 are we wasting time?
00:26:05.640 How can, how can we change something to improve the safety or improve the efficiency of what
00:26:11.360 we do?
00:26:12.120 And it may just be something that saves two or three seconds, but it makes a huge difference
00:26:17.860 over time.
00:26:18.620 That same type of thought process has to go into fixing a complex problem.
00:26:24.360 So was this doomed to fail from the beginning?
00:26:27.700 I mean, should we be looking for the short term to get us back to this kind of a system?
00:26:36.800 It seems to me one of the things we learned was there are some things like chips and medicine
00:26:43.620 that maybe we should make here in America for just for our own strategic, you know, defense
00:26:50.780 reasons.
00:26:51.440 Right.
00:26:51.560 Um, but does this system go back to the way it was?
00:26:56.680 Well, I think the difficulty is if you look at California, the ports and long beach, I
00:27:01.880 believe they were up 25 or 30% even last year.
00:27:06.080 And this year they're up another 20 or 30%.
00:27:08.880 And if you're landlocked and that much throughput is increasing, it was, it was inevitable that
00:27:16.020 you were going to have challenges unless you changed how you operated.
00:27:21.140 Um, you know, the, the difficulty with just moving chips to the U S as an example, they're
00:27:27.380 roughly 50 chip manufacturers in the world.
00:27:30.960 Um, 50% of all the chips come out of Taiwan.
00:27:34.580 I need you to listen to this.
00:27:37.180 50% of all chips come out of Taiwan.
00:27:39.920 Uh, roughly 90% of all the really high tech sophisticated chips come out of Taiwan.
00:27:47.280 Um, most all the chips come out of somewhere in Asia.
00:27:51.140 If it's not Taiwan, it's, it's Japan, it's Vietnam. 0.90
00:27:55.680 It's China number two, isn't it? 0.96
00:27:57.340 Yeah.
00:27:57.620 Yeah.
00:27:57.780 I think if you add Taiwan and China together, they are by far the largest.
00:28:02.060 So if Taiwan falls to China, they have a gun to our head to the globe. 0.99
00:28:08.760 Um, yeah, yeah.
00:28:10.320 And the difficulty is it takes a long time to build one of these plants and they're very
00:28:15.340 capital intensive.
00:28:16.600 You know, a new chip plant today is 15 to $20 billion to build.
00:28:21.300 So you can't exactly change that overnight.
00:28:25.340 So, um, we're going to continue our conversation here in, in, uh, just a second.
00:28:29.660 I, this is what, when you think about build back better, which is just a slogan to change
00:28:36.700 the financial, uh, uh, uh, strategy of our system.
00:28:42.060 This is the kind of stuff that we should be talking about.
00:28:45.080 Can we get a relief to help build chip manufacturing plants here in America?
00:28:51.020 Can we, can we redesign our ports instead?
00:28:55.040 They're going, they're going to green energy and all of this, this garbage that is not going
00:29:01.040 to help us out in the future to remain, uh, ahead of the rest of the world, or at least
00:29:07.020 even competitive with the rest of the world.
00:29:11.960 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:14.740 Now, today, uh, is a day that I didn't, I didn't know that it would come this, this
00:29:31.320 soon.
00:29:31.740 And I, while I don't want to gloat, I do, uh, I do want to dance.
00:29:41.380 Everybody dance!
00:29:46.500 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
00:29:50.960 Okay, that was childish.
00:29:53.320 Um.
00:29:53.860 That was the example of, of what not to do today.
00:29:56.480 Not to do.
00:29:56.760 Not to do.
00:29:57.500 You shouldn't do that at your workplace.
00:29:59.000 If somebody comes in and they're a little bit down today and they're like, gee, it looks
00:30:04.120 like the progressive socialists got their ass handed to them.
00:30:08.820 Yeah.
00:30:09.020 the last thing you need to do is say everybody dance that would be wrong no you shouldn't do
00:30:19.760 that you should not do that the last thing you should do thank you you shouldn't bring that
00:30:23.920 song with you on your phone no in fact let me just give you a clear cut of it go ahead
00:30:29.280 everybody dance not that whoops not that that should be your ringtone today oh you know that
00:30:41.880 would be bad that would be terrible terrible you would be a bad person if you did something like
00:30:46.520 that too many times more than more than 10 more than 10 no more than 10 in an hour okay so so
00:30:57.380 the signal from san francisco is pretty strong public you're talking about the scent of the
00:31:06.960 streets like they're just the no no no the signal the signal said okay yeah yeah yeah yeah uh public
00:31:13.640 safety public education voters in san francisco said yesterday yeah uh why don't you just pick up the
00:31:25.240 garbage uh why don't you just get people to stop crapping on the streets and uh stop trying to
00:31:31.700 rename all of the uh you know george washington and abraham lincoln schools we're pretty cool with that
00:31:37.740 um that is that is astounding astounding to happen in san francisco but uh it looks like i mean
00:31:52.100 could we just play kamala harris this is one two three four cut four please because you see what
00:31:59.240 happens in virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022 2024 and on everybody
00:32:10.440 she's right though sucks see people say we can't be bipartisan we agree with her analysis on that
00:32:25.000 point 100 percent agree 100 percent agree yeah yeah that's right yeah yeah uh so that's the problem
00:32:34.680 but will they learn that lesson no and to that i say everybody
00:32:41.480 because you just i mean
00:32:46.080 it's one of those days it is one of those days the only thing setting it aside from a perfect
00:32:54.520 wonderful day is what's happening in new jersey yeah which is incredibly good news for republicans
00:33:03.000 overall yeah and and quite honestly to even be close in new jersey to be close is astounding the
00:33:10.900 best poll in new jersey for chitarelli who's the republican there was a four point defeat and it's i don't
00:33:19.340 think it's going to be that high i think he looks like he is going to wind up losing in a very close
00:33:23.900 election just because the the vote that is hanging around is from democratic uh districts um but i will
00:33:30.600 say this what's interesting too when you look at on the other side of this in virginia the news of
00:33:35.560 of the governor uh situation and down the ticket is pretty good but the the house of delegates um
00:33:42.300 which is a fascinating uh race much more fascinating than the title house of delegates would indicate
00:33:49.840 because house of delegates i mean if that was a show on pbs the house of delegates i would immediately
00:33:56.340 right so there's a few different crazy ones there first of all there's this guy um uh his last name
00:34:04.360 it's chris hurst did i tell you the story this is a crazy one no go ahead so chris hurst you don't
00:34:08.500 know who he is of course but he you know something about him you know about the absolute worst moment of
00:34:14.280 his life okay okay so in 2015 remember this you'll remember this story um a video comes out of a
00:34:23.100 female reporter doing a live hit on the air and she's interviewing someone from the chamber of
00:34:29.240 commerce locally and in the middle of the interview a gunman comes out and kills her in the middle of 1.00
00:34:37.120 the interview do you remember this story no you don't remember the story we talked about it at the
00:34:40.700 time the video was everywhere uh she was legitimately doing a local news report gunman comes out kills her 0.98
00:34:46.640 on the camera on camera kills the um cameraman as well the the woman who she was interviewing got
00:34:52.740 away um that woman the reporter who was killed was the fiance of this guy chris hurst who after this
00:35:01.720 incident wound up running for the house of delegates he wins a close election wins another close election
00:35:09.360 he's running again the night before the election uh he is uh pulled over uh and apparently hold on just
00:35:18.660 a second hold on just a second i was promised i was promised here the uh you know the house of
00:35:25.000 delegates or whatever that sounded welcome to the house of delegates i'm nobody nothing exciting like
00:35:34.600 this happens in the house of delegates all they do is talk about quorum calls right right that's what
00:35:39.060 happens in the house that's right that's right no and somebody is like a really bad maid yes to 0.55
00:35:44.420 somebody else yeah okay anyway so um this guy gets pulled over pulled over on the night before the
00:35:52.200 election um police talked to him so it's unclear exactly what happened but either him or possibly the
00:35:59.060 woman who was in his car uh they catch them because they were vandalizing signs for his opponent so the
00:36:07.440 night before the election i guess they're just out tearing down signs for their opponent in the race
00:36:11.940 long story on that part short he winds up losing uh in the house of delegates this brings it to a 50 50
00:36:19.460 split so dev republicans might have a you know they're gonna have a split control of this house however
00:36:26.240 in the overnight how many times have you heard this story in the overnight new votes were found
00:36:31.620 all the time all the time yeah new votes were found new votes were counted and the the outcome
00:36:38.500 changed in favor of the republicans and now republicans look like they'll have 52 seats not to in two
00:36:47.100 different seats they're going to wind up getting a last minute win it looks like and it looks like now
00:36:52.400 republicans will get control of the house of delegates in virginia which nobody thought was
00:36:58.120 possible coming into last night so really i mean it's hard to limit how good the news was last night
00:37:06.240 wait a minute but it was supposed to be boring okay all right here's how we do it here's how we do it
00:37:15.840 um you know the uh the house of delegates uh there was somebody somebody that was not driving a
00:37:24.220 bentley came up on a bicycle and he was riding and there was a sign there in the large lawn and
00:37:33.100 he looked at it and said this shan't stand and votes were found in the basement by the butler
00:37:44.220 and then that and then just like a long musical interlude out oh sorry
00:37:50.320 on this week's house of delegates
00:37:55.620 brought to you in part by the ford foundation
00:38:00.380 that's where they spend most of their money most of their money is on shows like the house
00:38:05.860 yeah that and like really creepy eugenic stuff yeah sure but the house of delegates is the main
00:38:11.360 part of the organization not the actual house of delegates but the the show the show delegates
00:38:15.820 tuesday nights so really the only thing holding uh holding back the ultimate party today is this
00:38:24.100 new jersey thing which looks like it's you know this is like one of those situations where you're like
00:38:27.900 a small college you have no chance to win beat the big sec team you're playing and somehow you've got
00:38:35.480 the ball on the one yard line with eight seconds left in the game and you can't quite punch it across
00:38:41.580 like they're going to wind up losing a very close race you know and once again it is a sign mcauliffe
00:38:47.240 losing is a sign that hillary clinton and the clinton's power is over way over absolutely way over 1.00
00:38:56.380 their influence is done they mcauliffe what is essentially a clinton that's how close yeah oh yeah to
00:39:03.460 that that legacy and again and he might actually be a clinton yeah this bill might have had sex with 0.91
00:39:11.060 somebody you know i don't know on the next episode on the next episode of the house of delegates
00:39:20.420 bill clinton has sex with a downstairs maid will that be terry mcauliffe find out in the next episode of
00:39:32.740 on pbs it's hard to promote that show because how do you spell it you know delegates no the last
00:39:44.740 episode of it's just difficult to so his so the clintons are absolutely over now which is which is
00:39:55.340 another reason everybody i mean it's another reason for that it's another reason for that
00:40:04.460 and i think that bill clinton i mean uh barack obama also i mean he went out and he politicked hard
00:40:13.760 but his message was this is all bullcrap this is all made up stuff these white people are afraid of
00:40:20.540 black people and nobody's buying that nobody's buying that anymore yeah you know i think that's 1.00
00:40:26.600 a real miscalculation by the left and i i hope they continue to make it oh i do too because it is
00:40:33.360 just it's so insulting you know and i think there's an interesting thing here glenn between virginia and
00:40:38.140 new jersey we talked about virginia a lot in the lead up and obviously education was one of the most
00:40:43.060 important things but education isn't just crt and gender right it's also teachers unions telling
00:40:50.640 your kids they're not allowed to go to school correct it's the mask it's also a mass mask mandates
00:40:55.220 it's now relations yeah now it's your five to eleven year old having to get vaccinated vaccine mandates
00:41:01.220 and passports and all that stuff so all that stuff is is out there um and i think like when you look at
00:41:07.160 the new jersey situation which looks like it will move more to the right in pure points than even
00:41:14.540 virginia did i mean there was a it's a bluer state and you look at that and there was not crt was not
00:41:20.840 a big part of that election you know uh the gender stuff was not a big part of that election the covet 1.00
00:41:26.180 stuff was a big part of that election you know you look at murphy has the single highest or second
00:41:31.940 highest um he's even has a worse death rate in the in the state than andrew cuomo which is saying
00:41:36.840 something um and you know then you add on all of the businesses that were closed down they didn't
00:41:43.840 want kids going to school he's one of the worst with the mandates in the nation all of this came
00:41:50.060 and and hit new jersey business owners and you know regular citizens in the face over and over and over
00:41:56.660 and over and over again and you know that's it might be a bigger factor i think too a big part of
00:42:03.360 this is just how bad joe biden is yeah it's not you know there is a national aspect there are some
00:42:10.200 there are some like i i think um i think winsome sears could be a superstar she could be as now this
00:42:18.140 is a great story i don't know that much about her yeah i don't either but she's got a great
00:42:22.060 great story and she's cool pictures of her yeah right yeah gun which is very cool uh so she is the 0.98
00:42:28.980 new lieutenant governor uh in virginia she is also the first woman of color in the office of the
00:42:36.540 commonwealth's 400 year legislative history okay and she took on um she took on crt and she was very
00:42:47.900 very clear look we should learn good and bad about american history yeah yep 100 but we what did how did
00:42:56.120 she say it something along the lines of um but if you are coming in to a class and you're trying to
00:43:03.820 make one kid feel guilty for history and they're white black doesn't matter that's not sustainable 0.81
00:43:12.260 that's not a good plan so teach history as it actually happened leave all the rest of it out
00:43:19.380 yeah and how and what was amazing i was watching a little cnn last night so you don't have to
00:43:23.800 and you were the one it was your night it was my night over and over and over again they made the
00:43:31.440 point that this was just you know look youngkin um he just was using racist dog whistles uh he just
00:43:38.660 you know like when he was trying to ban these books they just happened to be with black authors
00:43:42.460 that absolutely this is this is crazy this is crazy um and you know this is a guy whose lieutenant
00:43:49.240 governor who's going all around the state was was was the was sears who was black the first black
00:43:54.920 woman to have statewide office his attorney general uh that he was running with is hispanic 1.00
00:44:00.100 all around the country honestly the only person who made sense and i didn't and i know he took
00:44:05.480 van jones as well what you're right van freaking jones i know i said he got in trouble for some of the
00:44:11.680 stuff he said last night but he said over and over again he said this this idea that we can win
00:44:16.840 elections meaning democrats can win elections by just saying we're not trump is dead tonight it's
00:44:21.660 over and he said over and over again that democrats come off as offensive to regular people they come
00:44:32.100 off as annoying to regular people and he's completely right and elitist and elitist i mean i think there's
00:44:41.280 something to be said when you are using the word latinx in your latinx or latinx you said i think
00:44:47.940 it could be both is that i think it's latinx it could be latinx seems even worse somehow i've heard
00:44:54.160 them say latinx i've heard them say latinx i've heard them say latinx as well now latinx just sounds
00:44:59.920 like malcolm x yeah it's to me it's bad either way i don't but i mean i prefer my preferred pronoun here
00:45:07.040 latinx latinx is better it seems more demeaning to democrats and it's more absurd considering
00:45:13.000 hispanics don't want you to say they don't want to say no latinx latinx they don't want to say any of 1.00
00:45:18.180 that uh and that's the point when you have these i think they are dog whistles for white elitists
00:45:27.780 when you say things that the average person is not saying that's a dog whistle i'm better than you
00:45:35.360 and people are not going to have any more of it i hope i hope all right now let's see the
00:45:43.260 republicans and what they do when they actually get into office please do something